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mitt romney is paying 13.9% taxes on $21 million. he offers up more tax breaks for the very, very rich with the rest of us, what's going to happen to the rest of us? not only medicare and social security and all of the programs that we come to rely on being sacrificed on the alter of tax cuts to the rich but he wants to restore all the military cuts. what in the world is going on here? why aren't people more enraged? i think we need to get beyond outraged and make sure that not only is barack obama the next president again, but also that democrats take back congress and take back this country. >> robert reich, author of the brand new book "beyond outrage." thank you for joining us. >>> there's a lot more coming up. stay with us. >> the more we compare ourselves to illinois and they see the failed policies don't work, the better off we are. >> awful news for the badgers meeps another major embarrassment for scott walker. now he is telling wisconsin voters to wait until after the recall for the jobs to show up. >>> artest drives it. >>
mitt romney is paying 13.9% taxes on $21 million. he offers up more tax breaks for the very, very rich with the rest of us, what's going to happen to the rest of us? not only medicare and social security and all of the programs that we come to rely on being sacrificed on the alter of tax cuts to the rich but he wants to restore all the military cuts. what in the world is going on here? why aren't people more enraged? i think we need to get beyond outraged and make sure that not only is barack...
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tax cuts for the rich? >> it's not just tax cuts. these whole mantra of all americans care about is tax cuts? >> they like war, too. >> it's not war, it's health care. they said we need a different system. we need a system in place where you can buy insurance across state lines and pull together. that's an inovaive idea. >> they had 30 years. he's running on what bush did and call it something different. for anyone who is not a millionaire to still vote gop is a sucker because no one has balanced a budget, no one has had a surplus since eisenhower. all they're good at is two things, redistribution of wealth and making conservative americans think it's a good think. >> i have given you the floor. >> the reason we had a balanced budget is the republicans, and where worked for the republican chairman, who worked for clinton in a bipartisan manner. >> fair enough. good discussion. i like it. keith, ron, john, thank you so much. >>> coming up, the disgrace of paying police officers and firefighters minimum wage. if it can happen in scrant
tax cuts for the rich? >> it's not just tax cuts. these whole mantra of all americans care about is tax cuts? >> they like war, too. >> it's not war, it's health care. they said we need a different system. we need a system in place where you can buy insurance across state lines and pull together. that's an inovaive idea. >> they had 30 years. he's running on what bush did and call it something different. for anyone who is not a millionaire to still vote gop is a sucker...
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bush's tax regime is what we're under right now. all the tax cuts that bush wanted are still in place. we're living in a world designed fiscally by george w. bush and obama hasn't been able to change it an inch. >> just a quick point. obama gets attacked on occasion for extending the bush tax cuts, and then we turn around and get people like the governor who says he's done a lot to raise taxes. there is a great bloomberg piece that says regulation is down on obama. fewer regulations. he gets attacked as this regulatory dictator. i think the facts sometimes get in the way of these attacks. but it is a truth that the republican congress has stymied the legislation and i don't see how that is controversial. they have very little legislative authority for what's going on, so that's the wish for things they want to do. but they've been pushing that for a couple of months now. the problem is they just can't move congress. >> haley? >> when the president had congress totally under his control, even the democrat congress would pay us all th
bush's tax regime is what we're under right now. all the tax cuts that bush wanted are still in place. we're living in a world designed fiscally by george w. bush and obama hasn't been able to change it an inch. >> just a quick point. obama gets attacked on occasion for extending the bush tax cuts, and then we turn around and get people like the governor who says he's done a lot to raise taxes. there is a great bloomberg piece that says regulation is down on obama. fewer regulations. he...
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releasing the tax returns would be more damaging to them than hiding the tax returns and hiding the tax returns has been very, very damaging and will continue to be very damaging to them. but the romneys are absolutely resolved about this. >> there's going to be no more tax releases given. >> that's it. that's final. the romneys are spoken. it continues to be perfectly reasonable and becomes increasingly reasonable to now suspect that the romney tax returns contain the political disaster, the political ammunition of a tax felony in them. he is one of the precious few americans who hold swiss bank accounts and other foreign bank accounts. so many of them were violating the law by not reporting those bank accounts that the government, the irs, gave up and they came up with a special amnesty program to allow them to finally get straight with the government and report those accounts that they were illegally hiding for years without being subject to felony charges. they created a tax amnesty program for people like mitt romney with accounts like mitt romney. moe mitt romney is exactly the ki
releasing the tax returns would be more damaging to them than hiding the tax returns and hiding the tax returns has been very, very damaging and will continue to be very damaging to them. but the romneys are absolutely resolved about this. >> there's going to be no more tax releases given. >> that's it. that's final. the romneys are spoken. it continues to be perfectly reasonable and becomes increasingly reasonable to now suspect that the romney tax returns contain the political...
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the middle tax tax cut is the hostage this time. he said he learned this lesson during the dent ceiling debate last year. we did learn this, it's a hostage that's worth ransoming and it focused the congress on something that must be done. this is why the obama camp is pushing the tax message right now and it's really a brilliant move. in a campaign memo two weeks ago, the white house adviser explains why this was a fight to win. if republicans want to talk about taxes, we're happy to have that debate. they'll rax taxes on middle class families to give millionaires and billionaires a $250,000 tax cut. recent analysis proves this to be true, for example, if you're a person who makes between $50,000 and $100,000 a year, listen up. your taxes will go up nearly $4,500 under the republican plan to offset the tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. that's how they want to play the game. the big question tonight, is whether democrats will follow the president's lead. this is where the president of the united states needs every democrat out o
the middle tax tax cut is the hostage this time. he said he learned this lesson during the dent ceiling debate last year. we did learn this, it's a hostage that's worth ransoming and it focused the congress on something that must be done. this is why the obama camp is pushing the tax message right now and it's really a brilliant move. in a campaign memo two weeks ago, the white house adviser explains why this was a fight to win. if republicans want to talk about taxes, we're happy to have that...
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that tax reform resulted in fewer people paying taxes. >> it did indeed, and it was the beginning of 30, 35 years of a market etiology in which our assumption was if we reduce the means with which government operates we're going to improve the economic fortunes of the country. that simply has not happened, and, in fact, what we've seen is we've seen tax rates go down, down, down. they were 90%, 80% on the rich in the '50s during the clinton era and 28%. today they are around 18%, but most of the rich like romney don't pay that. they pay even less so what we have is a trickle up theory. give tax breaks to the rich and they will take the money, and they will do things, not jobs. they say they will create jobs, but that's in the in fact what they do. >> okay. >> all through the bush years, all through the bush years taxes, you know, they -- they were given back to the rich and we lost jobs. the great recession happened under bush's watch with his tax policies in place. >> okay. so ben care tid one step further to a conspiracy. one that i won't disagree with to start. let's say this. you
that tax reform resulted in fewer people paying taxes. >> it did indeed, and it was the beginning of 30, 35 years of a market etiology in which our assumption was if we reduce the means with which government operates we're going to improve the economic fortunes of the country. that simply has not happened, and, in fact, what we've seen is we've seen tax rates go down, down, down. they were 90%, 80% on the rich in the '50s during the clinton era and 28%. today they are around 18%, but most...
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and in addition, put out two more years of tax returns. i understand the democrats will do everything in their power to keep the selection from being about the failure of president obama to turn around our economy. >> governor romney says he's ready to connect with the american public in a new way, including talking about his mormon faith. >> well, i'm not running for pastor in chief. i'm running for commander in chief. i'm happy to talk about those experiences. so if you'd like to ask questions about those things, i'm happy to respond to them. >> would you sit down and really talk the two of you, about something that holds a lot of curiosity for people? if the people think you're reluctant to talk about being mormon. >> i don't think there's anyone that doesn't know that i'm a member of the mormon church and happy to talk about my experiences, working as a, if you will, a pastor. >> and something else in the days ahead for the soon to be republican nominee. one of those ritual appearances on saturday night live. >> hello, i'm mitt romney.
and in addition, put out two more years of tax returns. i understand the democrats will do everything in their power to keep the selection from being about the failure of president obama to turn around our economy. >> governor romney says he's ready to connect with the american public in a new way, including talking about his mormon faith. >> well, i'm not running for pastor in chief. i'm running for commander in chief. i'm happy to talk about those experiences. so if you'd like to...
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. >> he stumbled to explain his own policies even his so-called tax plan, once again, he could not make a real clear argument about the math. and whether or not it adds up, i gave him a c, i don't believe that mitt romney gave us any answers to some things he hopes to accomplish if he's elected. >> i gave him a b. he got in some good messages and good points and romney campaign will point to his answers on energy and energy production and how he plans to increase that and getting that message in about the five-point plan for adding jobs, something very important for them to convey and i thought he had other good opportunities to talk about the president's record and the problems there. i thought it was a solid b. >> let me ask you, seemed like one of the things the president tried do was pin on mitt romney things he had during the primaries. self-deportation, social issues, those positions seemed to haubt r haunt romney because of the aggressiveness of president obama? >> the funding the planned parentho parenthood, reminding voters that mitt romney the guy who competed in the republica
. >> he stumbled to explain his own policies even his so-called tax plan, once again, he could not make a real clear argument about the math. and whether or not it adds up, i gave him a c, i don't believe that mitt romney gave us any answers to some things he hopes to accomplish if he's elected. >> i gave him a b. he got in some good messages and good points and romney campaign will point to his answers on energy and energy production and how he plans to increase that and getting...
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it's still means that taxes go up. you talk to people, and i rode on a southwest airlines flight the other day back from the debate next to a guy running a medical disposal company, 30 employees, you know, files -- one of the so-called rich, but he's not rich. he takes that money and sends it back into his company, trying to grow a small business. he said i can't make it work if he's going to raise taxes. i just can't make it work. it will mean i have to lay people off so that, i think, is the reality of it. president obama, at times in the past, seems to recognize that's reality of it, but now that we're in campaign mode, less than three weeks from the election, he doesn't want to acknowledge that. gerri: talk about campaign mode, the president will be on john stewart tonight talking about how the party needs to take some seats back from the g.o.p.. no big surprise there. how successful could they be? >> well, it depends. i mean, if he's talking about the house of representatives, i think that looks almost impossible
it's still means that taxes go up. you talk to people, and i rode on a southwest airlines flight the other day back from the debate next to a guy running a medical disposal company, 30 employees, you know, files -- one of the so-called rich, but he's not rich. he takes that money and sends it back into his company, trying to grow a small business. he said i can't make it work if he's going to raise taxes. i just can't make it work. it will mean i have to lay people off so that, i think, is the...
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he did raise the gas tax and he raised everything that wasn't a tax and it was about the kind of financial engineering to make the books look good without being candid with people about what our challenges were and what kinds of services they wanted from government. it's an integrity question, not just a policy question. >>> want to turn next to a former romney opponent, a former speaker of house, newt gingrich, speaker gingrich, thanks for being with us. you just heard deval patrick talk about -- why if mitt romney knows how to create jobs was he not able to create more jobs as governor of massachusetts. >> there was 4.7% unemployment, if we were at 4.7% unemployment, 5.5 million people would be back to work. romney clearly had what lower unemployment level and i think that's a fair part of this debate. but i think it also goes deeper, you just saw governor romney out of -- if obama wants to get into a debate about investments and choices about private sector investment and bureaucratic investment, solyndra is almost a case study in why bureaucrats don't invest state money because -- so c
he did raise the gas tax and he raised everything that wasn't a tax and it was about the kind of financial engineering to make the books look good without being candid with people about what our challenges were and what kinds of services they wanted from government. it's an integrity question, not just a policy question. >>> want to turn next to a former romney opponent, a former speaker of house, newt gingrich, speaker gingrich, thanks for being with us. you just heard deval patrick...
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i despair if we can make a more fair tax code. i'm turning to you senator to wrench me back from the precipice of despair. >> don't despair too much. i think, first of all, this was round one. this will not be the first or last time that will a special interest in washington was able to take one hard vote. if we keep coming at this issue, sooner or later we will win. it's important to keep coming at this issue. you have the problem of special interest money behind this. you have the problem of the oath that so many of the senators swore to. >> you raise public opinion. i wonder do you think this was hard vote for republicans across the aisle because with the exception, i believe of susan collins, it was a party line vote. was this a hard vote for republicans. i don't get the sense that it was. you seem toll think, you seem confident it's the kind of thing they will have to have a hard time explaining back in their home states. >> i think it was an easy vote for them in the sense it fit very well with the prevailing ideology that d
i despair if we can make a more fair tax code. i'm turning to you senator to wrench me back from the precipice of despair. >> don't despair too much. i think, first of all, this was round one. this will not be the first or last time that will a special interest in washington was able to take one hard vote. if we keep coming at this issue, sooner or later we will win. it's important to keep coming at this issue. you have the problem of special interest money behind this. you have the...
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plan and his own taxes. but this seals the deal and you're now in a situation where basically, mitt romney and i call this now the ryan romney ticket, not the other way around. the substance here is coming from ryan. he's going to have to defend a whole series of positions that are profoundly unpopular. it's pretty amazing, chris, you've been around this for a long time, to see gop pros criticizing the nominee. >> here's mark mckinnon. >> here's one. >> we don't do that. >> mark mckinnon. i'm hurt they don't want to hear from this guy. he told politico, quote, i think it's a very bold choice. ryan, an exciting and interesting pick. it's going to elevate the campaign into a debate over big ideas it means romney ryan can run on principles and provide real direction and vision for the republican party and probably lose. maybe big. how's that for an endorsement? and some of those anonymous republicans out there politico spoke to are concerned about their prospects, house and senate races, candidates for house an
plan and his own taxes. but this seals the deal and you're now in a situation where basically, mitt romney and i call this now the ryan romney ticket, not the other way around. the substance here is coming from ryan. he's going to have to defend a whole series of positions that are profoundly unpopular. it's pretty amazing, chris, you've been around this for a long time, to see gop pros criticizing the nominee. >> here's mark mckinnon. >> here's one. >> we don't do that....
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he said, i paid 13% in taxes. what kind of taxes? are we talking about fees on his five cadillacs, are we talking about payroll taxes? or are we talking about federal income taxes? that's not clear. but more important than all of this, ed, is where is his mind on tax policy? he's made it very clear, his tax policy that he's put forth and also with vice president designee or whomever, ryan, would reduce mitt romney's taxes last year to .82%. less than 1% would he have to pay under his proposed tax policy. this is where we really need to understand what is in this mind, what is he actually doing so that we can then figure out how he would act as president when tax policy comes up which it must come up. >> you know, i found it very interesting when he said that he has never paid anything under 13%. almost trying to make the case, it seems like, to infer to the american people, you know, i'm really paying a lot. you know -- >> ed, he's -- >> i found that absolutely amazing. >> he's paying what a single person making $40,000 would pay of
he said, i paid 13% in taxes. what kind of taxes? are we talking about fees on his five cadillacs, are we talking about payroll taxes? or are we talking about federal income taxes? that's not clear. but more important than all of this, ed, is where is his mind on tax policy? he's made it very clear, his tax policy that he's put forth and also with vice president designee or whomever, ryan, would reduce mitt romney's taxes last year to .82%. less than 1% would he have to pay under his proposed...
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at tonight's debate, a blizzard of percents. >> 93% of the businesses are not taxed at the 35% tax rate. >> reporter: all these perce percents -- >> it's mast. >> reporter: intended to make politics seem like facts that can't be argued with. >> like a sports analogy. it's odds, percentage chances. people have those percentages in their mind. they know their take-home pay. things that apply in their own life. >> reporter: but too many percents and you risk sounds like yogi berra, who said baseball is 90% physical, the other half is mental. a recent survey showed 42% of americans don't believe the polls. bottom line, percents don't always make sense. keep in mind, tonight, both candidates looked like they were addressing the 100%. but really, they're vying for a much smaller piece of the pie. really, they're trying to capture the undecided voters in the swing states who happen to be watching. that's not the 99%, not even the 47%. but that tiny fraction will end up deciding who won. >> if you want to focus on a percentage in this election that matters the most, it's 4% of the people that a
at tonight's debate, a blizzard of percents. >> 93% of the businesses are not taxed at the 35% tax rate. >> reporter: all these perce percents -- >> it's mast. >> reporter: intended to make politics seem like facts that can't be argued with. >> like a sports analogy. it's odds, percentage chances. people have those percentages in their mind. they know their take-home pay. things that apply in their own life. >> reporter: but too many percents and you risk...
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requiring a super majority to raise taxes. how about repealing capital gains taxes. alec has lost ten corporate donors including coca-cola, pepsi and kraft because of pressure from groups like color of change. the group says alec move is nothing more than a pr stunt aimed at diverting attention from its agenda which has done some serious damage to our communities. let's bring in executive director of color of change. when we first talked about this a little over a week ago, you thought this was going to have an impact. do you believe this group that they're going to change their focus when it comes to pushing legislation? >> absolutely not. the voter i.d. laws and the stand your ground laws are part of the larger agenda of laws that you just showed the viewers. these are all part of the same package intending to hurt our communities, but also the laws they worked to pass all around the country are still in place. people are still dealing with them. essentially they have went out and spilt oil until the water and said we're not going to spill anymore oil, but we're al
requiring a super majority to raise taxes. how about repealing capital gains taxes. alec has lost ten corporate donors including coca-cola, pepsi and kraft because of pressure from groups like color of change. the group says alec move is nothing more than a pr stunt aimed at diverting attention from its agenda which has done some serious damage to our communities. let's bring in executive director of color of change. when we first talked about this a little over a week ago, you thought this was...
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we have the same tax rate as japan. it need to come down and there is plenty to do and romney, if he delivers it again, he may be out cold. >> i think he may have the more detailed growth plan. but regarding the jobs plan, which sounds like a lot what he did in 2009, you know, my motto here is if it was going to work it would have already worked. maybe that is why they didn't want to go down that road. it will be more spending for teachers or whatever. that stuff never works. it is about $250 billion in tax breaks from businesses. there are some economists who could argue that the program did create some jobs. this is his vision. what is that mis. >> i think it is hard to mathe spending increases employment. there is a dial back that offsets that increase. you see that in qe 2 and qe 3. if you got an increase from government spending it would be the most robust economy in the world. >> if you go to government spending, if that is the answer tonight, obama is going to have more issues in time magazine. at the end of the
we have the same tax rate as japan. it need to come down and there is plenty to do and romney, if he delivers it again, he may be out cold. >> i think he may have the more detailed growth plan. but regarding the jobs plan, which sounds like a lot what he did in 2009, you know, my motto here is if it was going to work it would have already worked. maybe that is why they didn't want to go down that road. it will be more spending for teachers or whatever. that stuff never works. it is about...
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we have more tax-takers than tax-payers. >> sean: right now, we are there. we are 49%. >> more takersha
we have more tax-takers than tax-payers. >> sean: right now, we are there. we are 49%. >> more takersha
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millionaires get tax cuts by at least 6.9%. in the past romney has said the least fortunate among us are already taken care of by government programs. >> i'm in this race because i care about americans. i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair, i'll fix it. >> but if ryan and romney have their way, the social safety net will be eliminated, privatetized, you can count on it. that's why he doesn't care about the 47% of the country. he's talking about an ideology. he's getting ready to let them fall right through the safety net that this country has provided. you know, those compassionate conservatives that used to be around to try to sell us their stuff about how good they are? earlier this evening, president obama taped an appearance on "the late show with david letterman." he addressed the hidden video comments for the first time. >> mitt romney at a fundraiser in florida, there's a cell phone videotaping his remarks and he talks about being why 47% of the people voting don't matter
millionaires get tax cuts by at least 6.9%. in the past romney has said the least fortunate among us are already taken care of by government programs. >> i'm in this race because i care about americans. i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net there. if it needs repair, i'll fix it. >> but if ryan and romney have their way, the social safety net will be eliminated, privatetized, you can count on it. that's why he doesn't care about the 47% of the country. he's...
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republicans, tax cutters. democrats, taxes up. republicans, taxes down. so right, that's what we know, right? wrong. republicans do want to cut taxes on rich people. that much is fully true, and democrats want to raise taxes on rich people. that is at least mostly true, and i say mostly for reasons i'll explain in a moment. but when we're talking about poor people, the positions reverse. democrats want to cut taxes on poor people. and republicans at the moment want to raise them. and even the rich people thing isn't so simple because you could argue that democrats and republicans both want to cut taxes on rich people, at least when it comes to their specific plans for how to deal with the bush tax cuts. now, before we get into this, i got to be honest with you. it's going to get a little weird. you know how in physics light can be both a particle and a wave? see, we have a cool little physics illustration. in washington, a particularly tax policy change can be both a tax hike and a tax cut. at the same time. crazy, right? the reason for this is a little c
republicans, tax cutters. democrats, taxes up. republicans, taxes down. so right, that's what we know, right? wrong. republicans do want to cut taxes on rich people. that much is fully true, and democrats want to raise taxes on rich people. that is at least mostly true, and i say mostly for reasons i'll explain in a moment. but when we're talking about poor people, the positions reverse. democrats want to cut taxes on poor people. and republicans at the moment want to raise them. and even the...
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tax cut. the automatic cuts. many of those pieces need to be reset right away. the biggest of which is avenue middle class tax cut. that's the part that patty murray was talking about. that becomes a tax cut after january 1. that's going to be a big part of this deal. and believe me, they all want to make that happen quickly. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> my pleasure. >> send us your designs for the last word's off the cliff campaign button. you can also post it on our facebook page or e-mail us. i'm going to show you my button right now. i had it on last night. even today, we worked on a little redesign. got a better exclamation point today. kind of more modern font. a little tilt and emergency to it. -- and energy to it. we're not satisfied. you can get a little screen grab of that at home and work on it, make it better. we're willing to update it as we go along. and coming up, the freedom mitt romney wants to take away, the freedom to browse. wouldn't that's in "the rewrite."
tax cut. the automatic cuts. many of those pieces need to be reset right away. the biggest of which is avenue middle class tax cut. that's the part that patty murray was talking about. that becomes a tax cut after january 1. that's going to be a big part of this deal. and believe me, they all want to make that happen quickly. >> thank you both for joining me tonight. >> my pleasure. >> send us your designs for the last word's off the cliff campaign button. you can also post it...
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we have more tax-takers than tax-payers. >> sean: right now, we are there. we are 49%. >> more takers than producers. we need more producers. >> go work! >> ambition. good for you. >> sean: that's all our time. greta has a great show up next. see you back here tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, another bombshell in the secret service scandal. did you hear the latest? well, you will. and yes, another black eye for the elite agency. that's all coming up. and a new and another scandal.
we have more tax-takers than tax-payers. >> sean: right now, we are there. we are 49%. >> more takers than producers. we need more producers. >> go work! >> ambition. good for you. >> sean: that's all our time. greta has a great show up next. see you back here tomorrow night. >> greta: tonight, another bombshell in the secret service scandal. did you hear the latest? well, you will. and yes, another black eye for the elite agency. that's all coming up. and a...
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then there's state tax in most states and sales tax. so you end up having to take 100% of people's income. >> end up having to take 100% of people's income. that crazy person thinks that's where we're going, and that's why he's obsessed with nothing but tax cuts. >> he can't possibly believe that when he looks at his own taxes. >> i think he believes it. i any he's crazy and stupid and lives in this unbelievely ignorant bubble and he believes that. >> some people have taken the most chartable view that you can possibly take says that he was pandering to those in the room. but the problem is we have no idea what this man believes. that's the essential problem. the american public has no idea what this man believes. so as some of his advisers and some people around the campaign have called for him to give a major speech, i think he needs to very basically outline what is your philosophy. is it really just scorn for half the population? is that what you're all about? because that certainly is what it's coming off as. >> what it betrays to
then there's state tax in most states and sales tax. so you end up having to take 100% of people's income. >> end up having to take 100% of people's income. that crazy person thinks that's where we're going, and that's why he's obsessed with nothing but tax cuts. >> he can't possibly believe that when he looks at his own taxes. >> i think he believes it. i any he's crazy and stupid and lives in this unbelievely ignorant bubble and he believes that. >> some people have...
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where you paid a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question. was there ever any year where you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i didn't calculate that. i'd have to go back and look, but i have paid all the taxes required by law. >> reporter: when we followed up the next day, it showed that mitt romney has paid up. and today, another reporter also following up. >> today -- >> i did go back and look at my taxes and over the past ten years i never paid less than $13. >> reporter: and then governor romney with that assertion by governor reed saying romney didn't pay any taxes for ten years. >> i paid taxes every single year and harry reid's charges are false. >> reporter: we called senator reid's office. we were told he was on vacation. is there any way to tox to the senator? >> no. >> reporter: when you hear from governor romney that i'm still waiting for harry to. you up the source. >> reporter: even an romney. >> we've had a blind trust for so many years. we don't even know what's in
where you paid a 13.9% tax rate. can we clear this up by asking you a simple yes or no question. was there ever any year where you paid lower than the 13.9%? >> i didn't calculate that. i'd have to go back and look, but i have paid all the taxes required by law. >> reporter: when we followed up the next day, it showed that mitt romney has paid up. and today, another reporter also following up. >> today -- >> i did go back and look at my taxes and over the past ten years...
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that does that mean sales taxes, property taxes, are they dependent because they don't pay income tax? it does raise an unfortunate set of questions for him tomorrow. he paid, according to one tax return, 13% of his income. that's a lot less than upper middle class people, lawyers, doctors, pay because the government favors capital over labor. does that make capital dependent on government? i hope he's asked about it. >> this is how it's going to play on the right wing, i believe. they have started praising his rema remarks. romney was on message according to some. in some strange way, could this help romney with his base? >> i don't know. i think the folks who are going to respond positively it to this were already voting against president obama. few people will turn out. but i just don't see how this statement helps him. there's so many people he is putting in that dependent category who think of themselves as hardworking republicans. so i don't see how this helps. >> social security, medicare, i don't think he was talking about that. i think he was talking about medicaid. no fault
that does that mean sales taxes, property taxes, are they dependent because they don't pay income tax? it does raise an unfortunate set of questions for him tomorrow. he paid, according to one tax return, 13% of his income. that's a lot less than upper middle class people, lawyers, doctors, pay because the government favors capital over labor. does that make capital dependent on government? i hope he's asked about it. >> this is how it's going to play on the right wing, i believe. they...
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, or businesses, that hire people, rather than cutting taxes on the estates of billio cutting taxes for mitt romney's horse, which is count as a business under their small business definition. >> eric: mitt romney's horse? joining us is the anchor of fox news sunday. chris wallace. you have discussed a billion different tax policy interviews over the past number of years. >> yes, that was interesting and it is interesting, because, i think you saw sort of a different focus there, on the case of the romney campaign and they say raising taxes, that is what the president would do, let the bush tax cuts expire for any family that makes more than $250,000 a year, it is a position, incidentally, that barack obama took in 2010 when the economy was growing at a faster rate than it is now, he said it's not a time to raise taxes, because it will hurt the recovery, but, now, the obama camp has decided on its position and it has a lot to do and that is why romney's horse came into it with fairness and they are saying we're on the side of the middle class and they are for protecting the rich. and, i
, or businesses, that hire people, rather than cutting taxes on the estates of billio cutting taxes for mitt romney's horse, which is count as a business under their small business definition. >> eric: mitt romney's horse? joining us is the anchor of fox news sunday. chris wallace. you have discussed a billion different tax policy interviews over the past number of years. >> yes, that was interesting and it is interesting, because, i think you saw sort of a different focus there, on...
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cuts the tax reforms will end up benefitting the wealthy and hurting the middle class. there is an argument against that but romney has to make it more effectively and say i'm not just looking out for bain capital and business executives. this is why if you are a working, middle class american, this is why my plan will be better than the -- more of the same from obama. >> eric: looking forward to the detailed explanation and debate. >> very entertaining debate and interesting and you really see the fault lines in this campaign. i hope people will watch serving fascinating and so important, chris, always good to see you thank you. >> thank you, eric. >> eric: for more of chris's interview with the romney campaign senior advisor, clint hubbard and former chairman of the white house chairman of economic advisors, austin goolsbe, fox news sunday, important issues of the economy and what to do would you it. >> jamie: thank you so much, as they always do on sunday morning, the doctors will be in for "sunday house call," and they'll talk about lung cancer, more people who don'
cuts the tax reforms will end up benefitting the wealthy and hurting the middle class. there is an argument against that but romney has to make it more effectively and say i'm not just looking out for bain capital and business executives. this is why if you are a working, middle class american, this is why my plan will be better than the -- more of the same from obama. >> eric: looking forward to the detailed explanation and debate. >> very entertaining debate and interesting and...